Excited, Nervous, Scared, Happy, Sad....
There's a "For Sale" sign in the front of our house. ack!
Every time I catch a glimpse of it I feel like I'm going to throw up.
It's so real .
Jeff and I decided a while ago to start looking at houses in different areas. For the past 12 years he's been driving almost an hour to work each way and I think he's just about tired of it. That makes for an 11 hour day. Not a lot of fun for any of us.
We went to another city in our area last week and looked at about 1/2 a dozen houses. Of course, we saw ONE that we just instantly fell in love with. And, of course, we know it won't still be available by the time we're ready, but for now it's nice to dream and plan and decorate it in our minds.
We love our house, our school system, our neighbors! but we've just never been crazy about our town. We would just really like to be close to, well....anything !! So, we're torn. If our house, our whole block, were placed somewhere else, we'd be happy.
Brett is in turns excited and nauseous (I think he gets that from mom!) and Lili of course doesn't suspect a thing.
We have NO idea how long it'll take our house to sell. It seems like most are sitting around for a good 6 months or so. Which is hard, because Jeff and I have already half moved in our minds. We repainted the kitchen last night and didn't hang anything back up on the walls or anything, so I'm kind of lost because there's no calendar.
We took all the pictures and papers off the fridge, so it's just so stark. (and so BIG and so WHITE!!)
We really are very excited about this next phase in our lives.
We have no idea what God has planned for us and that really is exciting.
And the profit we stand to make is AWESOME! :)
posted by Nik's Knacks @ 9/09/2008 01:25:00 PM
4 Comments:
Best wishes with selling your house. I can see why you have a mixture of emotions around this idea. 7 years ago, my husband and I made the decision to put our house on the market and stop the long painful commute into the big city for our jobs. It took almost a year to sell, but it was the best thing we could have done. We gained over 2 hours back into lives and the cost of gas wasn't nearly as painful as it is now. Good luck, friend.
How exciting with all your new adventures-back to school, teaching and selling the house. The life plan always seems to fall into place. Good Luck.
Nice victory on ND's part today. :-)
You did the same thing we did a month and a half ago! The "fish bowl" syndrome is the worst part to me. We also heard it would take a while...but one month later and we had an offer. What was I thinking? Best of luck! And tell us more about what the new house is like.
Elsie...who's hoping your annual taxes are a misprint in the listing.
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